And on it goes...

Disclaimer: I do not own darkest powers as I am not Kelly Armstrong.

Derek POV

I watched the trains pass, I had eaten gotten my ticket and was now killing time. If Chloe was here she would entertain me with the breakdown of plots from her favourite films. But she's not here I reminded myself trying to ignore the question whose fault is that? I was going to correct my mistake or prevent it from getting worse.

My thoughts drifted back to Chloe, how much she had changed in the last two years. She was perfect before and after I thought but she had some confidence in herself now. The growth spurt Lauren had been promising her since she turned 14 had appeared she wasn't as tall as me but she was just the perfect size. She'd filled out in all the right places her hair went back to its original colour but she still put the red stripes in because she liked them, I admitted that it suited her and they had been permanent since. She had let it grow long I could spend hours lay down next to her playing with her hair just talking to her.

I missed her, it was sad to admit to myself I was the one who left it was for her own good her protection. I needed to get the pack to help her who she wouldn't survive, she was a fighter I was certain she would survive. She made me feel like a love sick puppy I couldn't act rationally when she was involved.

She was my mate, my only love and I was a threat to her. I would protect her but to be near me would only cause her more pain. I was interrupted from my wallowing by the arrival of my train I sat down in a seat far away from people not needing company to wallow in my misery I settled with my self-pity as company until a women passed flinging scents at me within them I recognised two.

"Simon? Tori?" I scowled at them my disapproval clear on my face they ignored that and Simon sat beside me and Tori opposite.

"What are you doing here?" I growled at them, didn't they know they were putting themselves in danger being with me. Tori simply rolled her eyes as if it was obvious and it frustrated her that she had to explain it to me.

"Well wolf-boy y-" I caught her short with a growled command to stop calling me that she simply smirked at me before continuing as if I hadn't spoken.

"You decided to be an utter idiot. Abandon Chloe in her hour of need to go on a suicide mission and we thought it would be fun to come and watch. You know take pictures to show Chloe when she wakes up so she doesn't feel left out. What do you think we are doing you invalid, you're the genius here. Did you really think we would let you do this alone we care about her as well."

I balked at her unable to say anything. Some times I wondered how Chloe and her were friends it wasn't until you saw Tori's protective side did I realise how much Chloe meant to her. Simon looked at me expectantly like he deserved an explanation.

"I didn't abandon her." I stated it was all I could say to them. Tori looked fit to exploded her mouth opened to say some abusive thing I'm sure but Simon was quicker to bite the bullet.

"Running away without telling anyway. Leaving her alone unprotected, she needs you right now. Your the werewolf the one that can help her when she wakes up. Oh but no your too busy wallowing in self pity to put her first. So yes I say you abandoned her." Simon was on the verge of yelling at me I had really messed up this time,I should say I was sorry or say something to make my actions seem less selfish but I couldn't because they couldn't understand.

"I told you I left. I didn't run away I told you what I was doing. As for leaving her unprotected last time I checked Tori was a super powerful witch who wouldn't let anything bad happen to Chloe. I left to help Chloe we need the pack to help her, I don't know what will happen she was bitten not born in case it escaped your notice I was born not bitten. I don't know how to help her or what to do, this is the only way I can ensure she won't wake up and not know what to do because I am clueless. So don't you dare that I don't care or I'm abandoning her, I'm finding a way to protect her." My speech was met by stunned silence maybe because they only thought of my actions as selfish or I hadn't made a large proclamation with real emotion in a while.

The doors to the train shut leaving me trapped in an enclosed space with Simon who seemed dumbstruck by the idea that I didn't know the answer and Tori who appeared semi-ashamed at having thought my motives selfish and shocked at the truth of Chloe's situation. The rest of the journey was spent in silence they were regaining their composer Tori was her indifferent self and Simon perked up and was trying to joke and make me laugh to no avail as we exited the train station.

I was sullen and hardly spoke two words to them since telling then which way to walk. Tori and Simon where busy bickering over something I wasn't sure anymore. When they bickered they seemed more like siblings the thought made me smile because they don't like to acknowledge there relations.

My thoughts were helpfully enganged in trying to find the source for their argument it wasn't until I was hit by a wall of wolf stench did I hush them. There was a gate that showed the entrance of a long driveway, this would evidently lead to the house of the Pack.

"This is it."

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